Turan

Turan

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  • The Big Blue
  • Lost Highway
  • Six Degrees of Separation
  • Incendies

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  • Cure

    ★★★★

  • The Brutalist

    ★★★★½

  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

    ★★★★½

  • A Complete Unknown

    ★★★½

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  • Cure

    Cure

    ★★★★

    Mesmerised.

  • The Brutalist

    The Brutalist

    ★★★★½

    In what could very well be the frontrunner for Best Picture at the Oscars, The Brutalist delivers a searing, deeply profound meditation on power, class, and the exploitation of immigrants and artistic vision.

    At its core, The Brutalist explores the complex and fraught relationship between two men: Van Buren (Guy Pearce), a member of the privileged elite, and Laszlo Toth (Adrien Brody), a visionary Hungarian Jewish immigrant struggling to carve out his place in a foreign land. What begins as…

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  • Emilia Pérez

    Emilia Pérez

    ★★★★

    From its gripping opening to its soul-shaking climax, this film evoked the same visceral awe I felt during HAL’s chilling demise in 2001: A Space Odyssey and the jaw-dropping revelation in Incendies.

    Jacques Audiard, a director I greatly admire, has once again delivered a masterpiece, proving that, though he doesn't release films often, his works are always worth the wait.

    The story revolves around a man—entangled in a web of his own wrongdoings—who undergoes a remarkable transformation into Emilia Pérez,…

  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

    The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

    ★★★★½

    AFter rewatching The Lord of the Rings Trilogy over the weekend, I found myself seeing it in a whole new light.

    This time round instead of just experience the grand adventure and epic battle scenes, I sat back and thought to myself, why have we been demonising Sauron like he was a debt-collecting paedophile. Sure, he was building an army to advance on middle earth. But what were they fighting for?

    The Lord of The Rings Trilogy is a world…

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